“So The Sourdough Rises” Tanka 418

Deep chill settles now

but sourdough starter rises

and says: Let’s make bread!

Yes, even that white stuff, too!

Thus, my hongry* mouth waters.

*(As ‘Hungry” hurriedly gets pro-nounce-ated here in the deep South that Deep Southerners – and tourist-type Yankees forget to remember Tallahassee was the only Confederate state capital not to fall during the recent Unpleasantness Between The States.)